Therapy strategies for locally advanced adenoid cystic carcinomas using modern radiation therapy techniques

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 338-344

  Schulz Ertner, Daniela ^a   Nikoghosyan, Anna ^a   Didinger, Bernd ^a   Münter, Marc ^a   Jäkel, Oliver ^b   Karger, Christian P ^b   Debus, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenoid cystic carcinoma; Carbon ion radiation therapy; Intensity modulated radiation therapy; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARBON ION RADIATION THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORBIT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SKULL BASE; STEREOTACTIC FRACTIONATED RADIATION THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 22244457629     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21158     Document Type: Article

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